Art News Archive 2025

April 2025

Applications open for Artist in Residency program – North Dakota State Parks

EXPO Chicago — here’s what’s new, notable, and FAQs about the massive art fair

World’s largest artist sketchbook collection finds a home in Minot (ND)

Museum of Nebraska Art set to reopen after extensive renovations

Kansas City (KS) will get public art honoring Conley sisters, who saved Native American cemetery

Remembering Ohio’s Matthew Mohr: A Creative Force in Art and Education

Grant Wood Symposium to explore race and representation in Regionalist art (Iowa City, IA)

New round of mural grants available to enrich rural Kansas communities

Artists rip (Chicago, IL) Mayor Brandon Johnson’s arts commissioner, department ‘dysfunction’ in letter

Oshkosh Art Collective (WI) returns to the Gibson Saturday, will show works by over 35 artists

National Gallery of Art marking 250th anniversary of US with loans to ten museums across the country

Shepherds sell fiber arts, wool grown on sheep farm in Saunders County (NE)

Artist aims to carve out niche in Moorhead’s ‘rejuvenation’ with community art studio (MN)

Federal judge rules action against National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) unnecessary after it backed off bans on gender ideology

Orange City (IA) art exhibit to showcase Siouxland artists

Kathan Brown, Acclaimed Fine Art Printmaker, Dies at 89

Native American Icon Leonard Peltier Captured in Wet Plate Photography Technique, Image heads to Library of Congress

Sheldon to host series of events alongside ‘Exploding Native Inevitable’ (Lincoln, NE)

Painting found at Minnesota garage sale is not a real Van Gogh

Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with ‘improper ideology’

Eiteljorg to present large exhibition of contemporary bead art (Indianapolis, IN)

March 2025

The North Dakota ruling against Greenpeace is a threat to free speech (artists included)

A Kansas art museum shows why (smaller) institutions should make admission free

Appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking ‘human’ creator

John Paul Morabito Showcases “Madonna dei Femminellə” at Kent State University Museum (OH)

Beco Gallery revived as The Waiting Room in reimagined West Bottoms space (Kansas City, MO)

Lajuana Lampkins, Beloved Wicker Park Street Artist, Dies At 67 (Chicago, IL)

UMich student organizations host art fair to fundraise for families in Gaza

Ohio High School Censors Student’s Women’s History Mural Over “Inappropriate” Imagery

Waterloo’s African American museum opens to the public for the first time (IA)

Kansas City gets first look at 6 competing visions for the future of Nelson-Atkins art museum

Art exhibit shows the history and beauty of Ho-Chunk basketry, and why it’s in danger (Oshkosh, WI)

Ohio-based artist Michael Hogan was recently named a 2024 Hug Artist to Watch for his dazzling miniature worlds

Forget the divide! Arts project seeks urban-rural solidarity instead

Arts groups sue over Trump’s ‘gender ideology’ executive order

#midwestagendaartnews #artsgroup #nea #grenderideology #funding #artisticmerit

Christie’s first AI art auction sees hits… and plenty of misses

‘This is what Northside is about’ | Neighborhood rallies to bring back murals lost to vandalism (Cincinnati, OH)

‘Panafrica Across Chicago’ Citywide Art Project Lets Chicagoans Explore

Minnesota’s Region 2 Arts Council awards $89,500 in Arts Access Grants

Columbus’ Tyson Cultural Arts Center reviewing halting use of nude models after feedback

Nude art isn’t lewd. Columbus’ Knee-jerk decision to drop classes has consequences

Vermillion (SD) recognized as Best Small Town Art Scene in USA Today 10BEST lists

Omaha art center fires 5 in ‘restructuring’; workers say its retaliation for union talks

Des Moines Art Center begins removal of Greenwood Pond: Double Site

Emporia artist partners with Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition to display pieces statewide

Kansas City calling on artists to help transform Barney Allis Plaza

February 2025

South Bend Museum of Art (IN) hosts exhibit of local student art from national competition

A spring show featuring artists with disabilities seeks submissions (Sioux Falls, SD)

Artists protest new NEA restrictions

Report: Ohio’s creative sector has $32.9 billion annual impact

A resurgence of artists is brewing in Minneapolis’ Warehouse District

City initiative aims to keep storm drains clean using art (Fort Wayne, IN)

Art Institute of Chicago Lands a Staggering Haul of Neoclassical Masterpieces

Howell (MI) artist’s collage to support LGBTQ+ community draws national attention

Fargo (ND) arts and culture commission recaps 10 years of projects

Rutherford Chang, Who Turned Collections Into Art, Dies at 45

A Philadelphia-Kansas City wager. This one of oils and canvas

#midwestagendaartnews #superbowl #eduoardmanet #impressionist #modernism #philadelphiaM #NelsonAtkinsMuseum #thefolkestoneboat #thecroquetparty

Kansas Legislature needs a leader for historical mural project of 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Artists and art supply industry balk at Minnesota’s ban on cadmium paint

Inspired by U.P. wilderness? Porkies open 2025 artist residency (Ontonago, MI)

Detroit Artists Market suffers severe flooding damage, seeks temporary home

Peter Hujar’s Second Coming

Group exhibition features the work of 11 women artists from war-torn Ukraine at North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks)

Art 64 seeks artists to compete for $20K prize (Wauwatosa, WI)

MSU Broad Museum exhibit focuses on food justice, agriculture in Michigan

Conservative Ohio think tank questions whether taxpayer dollars should fund art

January 2025

Art activists join together to advocate for funding at Kansas State Capitol

Madison Arts Commission (WI) call for art

Art Encounter receives $28,000 grant from NEA to expand in-school art program (Chicago, IL)

NE Ohio Is Buzzing with Ways to Celebrate Dr King’s Legacy

Thousands enjoy art on a frozen Minneapolis lake despite bone-chilling temperatures

South Bend Museum of Art (IN) seeking entries for ‘Biennial 33’ exhibition

\Art Museum Directors Increasingly Fear Censorship, But Few Have a Plan to Deal With It

‘One of the Most Impactful Art Losses Ever’: Insurers Start to Assess LA Wildfire Damage

#midwestagendaartnews #losangeles #wildfire #destruction #devestation #artcollection #artinsurance

Des Moines Art Center to Demolish Work and Pay Land Artist $900,000

Get a tiny, original artwork for only $5 from this unique vending machine Cincinnati, OH)

Michelle Obama portrait, John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ inspire new Mark Arts exhibit (Wichita, KS)

Augmented Reality Unveiling Party For Alton (IL) Mural Featuring Miles Davis

Painter Meg Lionel Murphy Finds Power in Feminine Giants (Door County, WI)

#midwestagendaartnews #artist #domesticviolence #meglionelmurphy

A Creative Life Exhibit Opens at VCSU Art Gallery (Valley City, ND)

Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch

After part falls to floor, artwork at Kansas City’s airport terminal likely gone for good

Artlink’s ‘Midwest Regional’ showcases talent from Fort Wayne (IN), beyond

Beck Center for the Arts presents The Superhero Project (Lakewood, OH)

Incarcerated artists find creative outlet through annual U-M exhibition (Ann Arbor, MI)

Land artist Stan Herd returns to Dodge City (KS) to repaint his iconic mural

A tale of two art magazines: one celebrates human-delivered arts in Kansas City, one is dedicated to AI art

#midwestagendaartnews #humanartist #artificialintelligence #art #artist

3 Minneapolis art exhibitions to see during the sleepiest week of 2024

December 2024

This holiday season, remember those less fortunate amidst a rising oligarchy. How one artist overcomes the problem of anti-homeless furniture in public spaces

‘27 years of goodbyes’ thrust Kansas photographer to unexpected international acclaim

‘Niimiwin’ art exhibit celebrates the powwow tradition (Minneapolis, MN)

Youngstown (OH) Cultural Legacy show to honor recently lost artists

Museum In Wisconsin Houses A Jaw-Dropping Quilts Collection

Court ruling states UMB acted properly in managing Thomas Hart Benton Trust

Schools in central Iowa use art of origami to meet geometry standards for Iowa mathematics

Arctic winds create mysterious frozen sand sculptures along Lake Michigan beach

Nikki Giovanni was a walking revolution

Woman Transforms Historic African-American Doll Collection Into A Free Museum In Omaha (NE)

Ethereal, Glowing Curtains Drape Over Lake Michigan in Reuben Wu’s Light Paintings

Illinois artist builds ‘world’s tallest glass tree’ from recycled bottles

Tiff Massey’s ‘7 Mile + Livernois’ exhibition is a tribute to Black Detroit

Laetitia Hohenberg, Travis Pratt and others to be featured at latest Heidmann Art Salon (Kansas City, MO)

Toledo Museum of Art makes historic art acquisition using cryptocurrency

The lore of Leigh Bowery
^{Thirty years after his death, his legacy is about to live loud and proud at Tate Modern}

A Kansas artist’s love for his wife lives on as a Christmas tradition in Lindsborg

Tinyescape, Kansas City’s Westside Holiday Pop-up, Tiny Handmade Dioramas Inspired by Nature and More

Evanston Made (IL) clinches $1.2 million grant, city funding, to open arts center

OpenAI’s Sora Tool Leaked By Group Of Aggrieved Early Testers

Canton Museum of Art exhibit explores the avant-garde spirit of Cleveland’s Kokoon Klub

Art exhibit at Tennessee university museum draws controversy
^{Free speech and Christian faith at loggerheads again}

Historic Land Transfer to Osage Nation Facilitated by Arts Group (St Louis, MO)

Skylab Gallery to host final show before eviction (Columbus, OH)

An online collection of ‘outsider art’ enters the real world for the first time in Des Moines (IA)